Taking the Train

GRAFFITI AND OLD FACTORY

Nancy Herman

9" x 12"

oil on canvas board

For the next few days I will be posting paintings done from photos taken from the window of the train from New York to Philadelphia.  For some reason the old factories covered in graffiti, houses by the train tracks, and yards full of old cars fascinate me when I travel by train.  There is something lonely, sad and at the same time reaffirming about what exists by the tracks.  Life goes on in the graffiti and the small often colorful homes.  Things start to blend together as the weather wears away the buildings and even the layers of graffiti become a part of nature's design.  The colorful marks are the flowering of the exuberant youth making themselves known to the world as it goes by in the comfort of the train.